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"Its reliance on frequent random access patterns makes it incompatible with the sequential access nature of disk storage."

Is this true for SSD storage, or does it only apply to spinning metal platters?

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Hi, I'm the author of the article. The sequential access pattern of IVF makes prefetching and large block sequential reads much easier, whereas it's almost impossible for HNSW to achieve efficient prefetching.

Yes, I get that, but does the large block sequential read pattern matter with SSDs, or do the benefits only accrue with spinning disk drives?

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